Re: [PATCH v2] rcu: Allow to eliminate softirq processing from rcutree

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2019-03-20 10:30:01 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 05:35:32PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > On 2019-03-20 09:15:00 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > I am considering making it a module_param() to avoid namespace pollution,
> > > as it would become something like rcutree.nosoftirq.
> > > 
> > > Thoughts?
> > 
> > nope, perfect.
> 
> Please see below for an untested patch.  Thoughts?

> -	if (rcu_softirq_enabled) {
> +	if (!nosoftirq) {
>  		raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ);
>  	} else {

This double negation looks weird. Can we flip the logic somehow?
/me testing if it worksâ
> 							Thanx, Paul

Sebastian